USS Antietam (CV-36)
Essex-class aircraft carrier of the US Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS Antietam (CV/CVA/CVS-36) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during and shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was the second US Navy ship to bear the name, and was named for the American Civil War Battle of Antietam (Maryland). Antietam was commissioned in January 1945, too late to serve actively in World War II. After serving a short time in the Far East, she was decommissioned in 1949. She was soon recommissioned for Korean War service, and in that conflict earned two battle stars. In the early 1950s, she was redesignated an attack carrier (CVA) and then an antisubmarine warfare carrier (CVS). After the Korean War she spent the rest of her career operating in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean. From 1957 until her deactivation, she was the Navy's training carrier, operating out of Florida.
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USS Antietam on 19 April 1961 | |
History | |
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Name | Antietam |
Namesake | Battle of Antietam |
Builder | Philadelphia Naval Shipyard |
Laid down | 15 March 1943 |
Launched | 20 August 1944 |
Commissioned | 28 January 1945 |
Decommissioned | 21 June 1949 |
Recommissioned | 17 July 1951 |
Decommissioned | 8 May 1963 |
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Fate | Scrapped, 28 February 1974 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Essex-class aircraft carrier |
Displacement | 27,100 long tons (27,500 t) standard |
Length | 888 feet (271 m) overall |
Beam | 93 feet (28 m) |
Draft | 28 feet 7 inches (8.71 m) |
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Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
Complement | 3448 officers and enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 90–100 aircraft |
Antietam was fitted with a port sponson in 1952 to make her the world's first true angled-deck aircraft carrier. However, she received no major modernizations other than this, and thus throughout her career largely retained the classic appearance of a World War II Essex-class ship. She was decommissioned in 1963, and sold for scrap in 1974.